Two Sounds Ensemble

Two Sounds Ensemble: Inversions I - VI

by Dan McClenaghan
August 12, 2004

There's something to be said for restraint in the arena of freely improvised music. Much of the free jazz out there flirts a little too heavily with the chaotic and discordant, with dissonant noise. For these sets the word “daunting" and the phrase “not for the faint of heart" are often used.Sweden's TSE--Two Sounds Ensemble--reigns in its free jazz vision with laudable restraint, with a lovely wandering progression in its instantly composed music that stays appealingly within earshot ...